MILOSLAV VOLF A JEHO ARCHIVNÍ PŘÍRUČKA
MILOSLAV VOLF AND HIS ARCHIVAL HANDBOOK

Summary/Abstract: The professional profile of the archivist and historian Miloslav Volf (1902–1982) is connected primarily with the Archive of the Czech Lands, resp. The State Central Archive in Prague, where he worked in the years 1930–1959, but his personality was multi-layered. Miloslav Volf worked as a journalist for several years, and was significantly publicly involved in the interwar leftist movement. He is also the author of a number of scientific publications (he dealt with the issue of land books, he was a long-term inspector for municipal archives, etc.), he was also very active in the professional community (among others as the secretary of the State Archival School, a long-term committee-member of the Czech Archival Society). A kind of culmination of his archival-theoretical work is an extensive archival handbook, which he prepared in the early 1950s. This handbook was to cover the field of archiving in a comprehensive way, including its historical aspect. The study presents the genesis of the manuscript, an analysis of its content and the reasons why it was not finally published.

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